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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still waiting for you to say, "Oh, I was wrong. It turns out Colleen Hoover did tell Justin to tone down the sex in the movie, and it turns out Sony was not pushing for the R rating -- Justin was. I see now that I had incorrect ideas about what happened and might not not know as much as I thought I did."

But if you need to spin out first, ok I guess. Do you need to talk about how Ryan is closeted and they're gonna get divorced and how hot Justin's abs are? Go for it babe. I know it's hard.[/quote]

I wasn’t wrong though. Sony and Colleen and Blake seemed to have different visions. You will recall Colleen handpicked Justin to tell the story and pushed him to play the lead. Why rewrite history.

Justin realized early on Blake was very self conscious and was more than willing to work with her. She was the one who was improvising kissing scenes with him. You are just leaving a lot out to fit your version of the story.

The rooftop scene she sent over had that totally gross and inappropriate term. And the scene was over the top. [/quote]

You were 100% wrong. I told you Colleen had told Justin that she wanted less sex and more romance/build up in the movie, and you told me it "never happened." I then proved it happened with the actual texts where she said this, and you now claim you never said what you obviously said -- it's in writing in this thread, and then claimed Sony was forcing Justin to make an R rated film. I then disproved that with direct evidence showing that it was the opposite -- Justin wanted to do an R rated film and Sony was skeptical, and their only hang up about a PG-13 film was whether Colleen felt her book readers would be interested. And she very firmly said YES, book readers wanted a PG-13 film because the sex was way less important than the emotion, and Colleen herself wanted teens to be able to go.

Blake wanted a PG-13 film with less sex, probably partly because she just doesn't do a lot of sex/nudity in movies (a known issue that Wayfarer must have been aware of when they hired her) but also she seemed to just think it was a better way to tell a story about a woman who is a DV survivor for an audience of mostly women.

Colleen wanted a PG-13 film because as an experienced romance writer and a consumer of both romance books and movies, she truly believed that audiences (women like her) would prefer more emotion and less sex, and in fact would feel uncomfortable or put off by too much sex or too explicit sex, and she wanted teens to be able to see the movie and for it to be accessible.

And Sony was a little more ambivalent but was not pushing for an R film at all, they viewed it from a business standpoint in terms of what their ratings team would recommend/approve, how the movie would sell, and what Colleen's built in audience would want.

They were all essentially in agreement.

Only Justin wanted to make a graphic, highly sexed, R rated movie. And there are THREE women telling him that maybe that's not a good idea, and he thinks they are all wrong.

Maybe Justin wasn't the right director for this film.[/quote]

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